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| Bald robot lady = adult mature film I guess? |
Ex Machina tells us the story of Caleb (played by Domhnall
Gleeson), a nerdy tech guy, who was selected in a Willy Wonka style to go work
at his boss, Nathan’s (Oscar Isaac) private lab. When he arrives, he finds the
female android named Ava (played by Alicia Vikander), who has a highly intelligent
if not pseudo-sentient artificial intelligence. When Ava informs Caleb that
Nathan can’t be trusted, Caleb begins to question whether Nathan is abusing the
“Robots”.
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| She's not a happy lady. |
It’s hard to really say what needs to be said. On one hand,
it’s an interesting movie. Yet, it’s really just a rehashing of the
Frankenstein story, “I, Robot”, and many of the other “mad scientist” and robot
rebellion movies. Not only that, but many of the lines are hammy and
melodramatic. Sadly, it’s trying far too hard to be serious, when it doesn’t
really need to. Likewise, there are some oddities. Why is Nathan continuing to
create AI, when he states that they will probably turn on humanity?
Ex Machina isn’t a horrible movie. It’s not a bad movie. In
fact, it may be a decent movie. However, I would really only recommend it if
you’re dying for a sci-fi movie that isn’t a campy Rambo/Cannon-films action
flick with futuristic/sci-fi aesthetics. It’s an honest to goodness sci-fi
film, with the only cavet being that it’s suffers from being the same sort of
alternate sci-fi film.
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